Remarks by Sage Turner
70 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“All right, that's a unanimous vote. Thank you very much. Good luck with TRC.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Sure, I'm happy to follow up. It's actually a very simple motion, and I move to approve the proposed substantial amendment to the home allocation plan.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Oh, gosh. There's a few things that come naturally. You look ready.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“A lot of that stuff is built into it. So it sounds like if staff are okay with it, I'm happy to support the amendment.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And I think the big point I heard, though, is that because we deal with this at our consortium, but then we bring it back for approval and just kind of stamp it as a council, but we don't actually review it at length. And maybe this time we do.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“That's super helpful. I accept the friendly amendment. Do you second? Okay. Okay.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“That's enormous news. Well, it just gets us through Code Purple. But it's been an emergency I've been worried about. Thank you.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“It's non-congregate. I think it's 19 or something.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“So I want to make sure I heard correctly, though. So we do have enough Code Purple beds. However, to execute it, we may need more funding.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I have one question. Right early in the beginning you said something that caught my ear and I didn't want to interrupt you. You said, and I don't know if it was you or the funding initiative was changing a perspective, but a transition to treatment first instead of housing first. Can you repeat what you said?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Meaning, so in housing first, it's just, I mean, literally like it sounds. It doesn't matter the state you're in will get you housed. But now there's a movement from HUD that we're now going to have to adhere to that is you can get into housing after you've sought treatment?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I understand all that. These are great things that we've been taught for a number of years. I'm just a little taken back by everything we've been taught.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And are we adopting these policies? Because these are, I mean, that's an important question. And those were from homelessness advocates. I'm saying how is this going to trickle throughout our organization? You rarely come before us. You're such a wealth of knowledge. I'm curious about your...”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Is there any concern that it could be prohibitive to people getting housed?”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“To supplement this requirement, yeah. Exactly, and so that's it. It's a little alarming.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Apparently, the dual income is what they're promoting, if you can swing it. Thank you for answering.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Can I circle back to something Councilman Roney was saying about the trouble we had deploying assistance through partnership? Did we add any language about should they encounter deployment deficiencies? We can recall anything like that because it is in there now. Is it different, or was it always that way? Because we ran into this, and I don't suspect that we'll have any problem with these organizations. I do see one name on there that was problematic getting things out the door, because they were short-staffed, which impacted people's daily lives, and some for months, right? Or perhaps…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“And I guess that was a hard conversation for us last time as a thing. It was hard to call on our neighboring partners who we trust with this work and say, it's not enough, it's not fast enough. So I just want to layer in some additional concern there. I hope that it goes better this time.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Just as an aside, too, since I see HMIS on there, we don't have full compatibility across all partners with HMIS, do we? We still have some committee partners that don't.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“That is a long time coming. We talked about that for like 10 years. Okay, that is wonderful. That's why I brought it up. I also know that there are a couple media in the room and I'm hoping that they, when they speak to their articles, talk about HMIS a little bit. I've seen a lot of misinformation in the community recently around databases, tracking information, individual, how are we processing people, is there an entry program? And I was just astounded, I know we're up here and we talk about it a lot, but I was astounded at the lack of awareness. So those of you over here that are, if you…”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“I would love follow-up. I heard Councilwoman Smith speak to that earlier. I'd love to hear more about how Treatment First is going to roll out in this new shift. Emily, we want you at every meeting. I know. Even though you have to drive all the way on to... I mean, no. She knows. I'm glad you know, too. She's wonderful.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“A little of both, too, right? Because they're expensive. We require the homeowner to pay something for them. We never have had enough.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“But we've never, to my knowledge, I don't think we've ever had enough for the orders on hand.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026
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“Yeah, we can't believe it. You're going to talk all about trash cans.”
City Council · Oct 13, 2026